Clinton Visits School
Bill Clinton is visiting a school. In one class,
he asks the students if anyone can give him an example of a
"TRAGEDY". One little boy stands up and offers,
"If my best friend who lives next door was playing in
the street when a car came along and killed him, that would
be a TRAGEDY."
"No," Clinton says, "That would be
an ACCIDENT."
A girl raises her hand. "If a school bus
carrying fifty children drove off a cliff, killing everyone
involved... that would be a TRAGEDY."
I'm afraid not," explains Clinton. "That
is what we would call a GREAT LOSS." The room is silent;
none of the other children volunteer. "What?" asks
Clinton. "Isn't there any one here who can give me an
example of a TRAGEDY?"
Finally, a boy in the back raises his hand. In a
timid voice, he speaks: "If an airplane carrying Bill
and Hillary Clinton were blown up by a bomb, *that* would be
a TRAGEDY." "Wonderful!" Clinton beams.
"Marvelous! And can you tell me WHY that would be a
TRAGEDY?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it
wouldn't be an ACCIDENT, and it certainly would be no GREAT
LOSS!"
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